Abstract
The clingy properties of fabrics under perspiration are closely related to discomfortable contact feel.
The clingy force on a water-meniscus between a sphere and a flat plate has been calculated as a simulation model of the clingy force of wet fabrics. The equation derived involves such factors as, the radius and number of the sphere, the angles of water-contact for the sphere and plate and water content. The clingy force increased rapidly in the range until about water content 1g/m2 (0.77%) or wettedness 0.15cm2/cm2, then reached the maximum value 2_??_3g/cm2, when the initial conditions were 0.0085cm in the radius of the sphere, about 1500number/cm2 in the number of the sphere-contact and 71° and 89° in the angles of water-contact for the sphere and plate. It was found that the clingy force was large when both the angles of water-contact for the sphere and plate were small, while it was small when both angles were large.
